Flight’s
Robert Zemeckis is developing a TV show for NBC called Manifest, about the
disappearance of a passenger jet that suddenly returns five years later after no
trace of the wreckage was found…Hell on Wheels’ Common will play the lead in the
new Starz series Black Samurai. He will play an American Army Ranger trained by
a samurai…WWE star John Cena and Kevin Hart are being looked at as the stars of
a Knight Rider film…NBC was going to reboot Xena: Warrior Princess but the
project is now dead…B-movie icon Larry Cohen and J.J. Abrams are teaming up to
develop an anthology series.…Logan Lucky’s Steven Soderbergh is developing an
HBO show called Mosaic. The planned series would tell a story from multiple
perspectives and will also be an app that fans could follow…The League’s Paul
Scheer is writing a Galaxy Quest TV show for Amazon…BBC is working on a TV
adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds. It will not tell the same story
seen in the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name…Jon Hamm, Michael Sheen and
David Tennant have scored the lead roles in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman and
Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens